The status quo is working.

The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.